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13 Days Of Spontaneous Joy! Join The Creating Joy Through Play Campaign!
Life can be enjoyable. Many of us have forgotten how to be happy in the moment, how to access a sense of joy. But what else do we have but this moment now?…
The Origins Of ACES: Vincent Felitti, MD, Presents His Study’s…
Dr. Felitti presents Adverse Childhood Experiences and their Relationship to Adult Health and Wellbeing: Turning Gold Into Lead
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Well, Virginia, It’s…Complicated: Child Liberation And The Santa Claus…
Child Liberation, the Santa Claus Story, and How to
Start Making a Better World this Holiday Season
"Love, as happens all too often in our…
Why Don’t Healthy Humans Act Like Apes?
Humans evolved greater sociality than chimpanzees.
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Humans evolved to share child raising and build a big social brain.Humans have bigger…
Normalizing ACEs Awareness In Healthcare
Editor's Note: The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and its initiatives, formally named ACES, has evolved to include Positive and Adverse Childhood…
We Must Choose: Fragility Born From Power-Over Or Robustness Born From…
"So…what now? We need an antidote—something we can apply to this wound. What is the antidote to fragility? It is this—robustness. Robustness is the opposite of…
New Study: Thriving Child, Cooperative Child
Children's socialization is supported by their well-being.
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Children’s social engagement appears to be reliant on their experience of…
How Doing Nothing Makes You More Productive
Our brains need empty space to dream, concoct, and innovate. Einstein himself believed his best ideas came to him during his violin breaks, what he called…
Evolved Nest experience In Childhood Buffers The Negative Effects Of ACEs
The importance of buffering adverse childhood experiences
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Adversity in childhood is associated with poor physiologic regulation, seen in…
Indigenous Self-Actualization Is Communal
Individualism is not our species’ heritage and can misdirect development.
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Maslow benefitted from his summer with the Blackfoot, shifting…